Pen Tool clipping paths to light/ low contrast.

Mac (10.6.8)
When using the pen tool to make clipping paths (silhouetting) the lines are much to light, thin and low contrast to be properly seen. I spend a lot of time clipping products (often middle greyish colored ones) and find in some places it is virtually impossible to even see the line/path being created.
I downloaded the CS6 beta with hopes that this problem was resolved but am unable to see where/how to fix it. (fixed outright? adjustments to line weight? Ability to change path color? Etc) Anyone else get it working properly?
FYI It worked fine up until CS3 but with CS4, CS5 and CS5.5 Adobe seems to have gone backwards.  When researching a work around I have often seen it blamed on the MAC OS but that is untrue as I have both CS3 and CS5.5 installed on the same machine and the pen tool for clipping paths still works great in CS3.

We do lots of paths as well, this helps somewhat:
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/paths-guides-difficult-see-photoshop.html
Dan Clark
www.weinberg-clark.com

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